Do Anagrams Reveal Hidden Meanings?

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I got a kick out of these and thought others here might enjoy some of them.

http://wordsmith.org/anagram/hof.html
Dormitory = Dirty Room
Schoolmaster = The classroom
The cockroach = Cook, catch her
Desperation = A Rope Ends It
The Meaning of Life = The fine game of nil
Conversation = Voices Rant On
Mother-in-law = Woman Hitler
A Domesticated Animal = Docile, as a Man Tamed it
Barbie doll = I'll bare bod / Babe I'd roll / Liberal bod
Statue of Liberty = Built to Stay Free
The United States of America = Attaineth its cause, freedom
Mel Gibson = Bong Smile

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From Hamlet by Shakespeare:
To be or not to be: that is the question, whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune. =
In one of the Bard's best-thought-of tragedies, our insistent hero, Hamlet, queries on two fronts about how life turns rotten.

Quote by Vonnegut:
Just because some of us can read and write and do a little math, that doesn't mean we deserve to conquer the universe. =
A masquerade can cover a sense of what is real to deceive us; to be unjaded and not lost, we must, then, determine truth.

Why shouldn't America go re-elect President Clinton in Ninety-Six? = He has a prime or cunning tendency to wildly solicit Internet sex.

George Herbert Walker Bush = Huge Berserk Rebel Warthog
 
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Richard Dawkins: The God Delusion = Charles Darwin: God did OK in the US

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